Sat 23 Feb 2008
Google Sitelinks Day > Has Google Given More Smaller Sites Sitelinks?
Posted by Shaun AndersonToday I’m seeing new Google Sitelinks for a lot of my clients, and indeed the Hobo Web site.

The links shown below some sites in our search results, called sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site. Our systems analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will save users time and allow them to quickly find the information they’re looking for. We only show sitelinks for results when we think they’ll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn’t allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don’t think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user’s query, we won’t show them. At the moment, sitelinks are completely automated. We’re always working to improve our sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future. GOOGLE
I’ve not seen it missed at SERoundtable and Search Engine Land is not reporting it but it seems to be widespread amongst at least the smaller client sites I monitor. I had noticed a lot of my small websites now have these Google sitelinks whereas yesterday they had none.
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Yeah we have received sitewides along with a lot of our clients. I think overall in the UK they have been rolling out more site-links, local results and universal search features.
Comment by James — February 25, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
Just saw these on my website today. Good work on getting there first.
Comment by David Airey — March 13, 2008 @ 6:17 pm
Hi James long time no speak
Thanks for the comment David. Yeah, and over the last week it’s not just the exact match url that’s returning sitelinks, ie “hobo web” I now get Google sitelinks for other phrases too ie ‘Hobo SEO’, probably as this is how I often sign off on other blogs too.
Now the aim is to generate sitelinks for competitive phrases - a much more difficult undertaking!
Comment by Shaun Anderson — March 13, 2008 @ 6:32 pm
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